kanchanaburi
This place is much much more chilled out than bangkok. still geared up for the travellers for th bridge over the river kwai and waterfalls, death railways and hellfire pass.
I went to the death railway museum - so so moving and jhust heartbreaking what they had to go through and to the Allied war cemetery (there are two in this town. this one had 6,000. The other almost as many - and that doesn't include US soldiers).
Yesterday (tuesday, july5) i went on a small tour with one of the companies. figured best way to see everything. went to the erawan waterfalls - 7 steps of beautiful waterfalls with huge pools to swim in. a lot of fun but hard work and very slippery! we also went to hellfire pass - where allied pow's (many australians) did a massive cutting through the rock and were made to work day and night to get the thailand-burma railway ready for the japanese during WWII.
We then went to see the bridge itself and take a ride over one of the old wooden sections of the railway which is still in use after all this time.
then met up with some guys had met night before - Brendan, Ben and Jamie - it was a late one staying up to see Italy v Germany (that was a 2am kick off here).
Tourist police crack down on bars hard to close at 1am (could it be the rumours of a murderer in this town are true??!) but we managed to get oursleves a lock-iin at the Buddha Bar with friendly bunch of people all cheering on the italians!
Decided to stay here another night before i head up to Nong Khai for induction into teaching tomorrow! Bangkok too much for this weary person right now!
keep in touch everyone! lots of love
I went to the death railway museum - so so moving and jhust heartbreaking what they had to go through and to the Allied war cemetery (there are two in this town. this one had 6,000. The other almost as many - and that doesn't include US soldiers).
Yesterday (tuesday, july5) i went on a small tour with one of the companies. figured best way to see everything. went to the erawan waterfalls - 7 steps of beautiful waterfalls with huge pools to swim in. a lot of fun but hard work and very slippery! we also went to hellfire pass - where allied pow's (many australians) did a massive cutting through the rock and were made to work day and night to get the thailand-burma railway ready for the japanese during WWII.
We then went to see the bridge itself and take a ride over one of the old wooden sections of the railway which is still in use after all this time.
then met up with some guys had met night before - Brendan, Ben and Jamie - it was a late one staying up to see Italy v Germany (that was a 2am kick off here).
Tourist police crack down on bars hard to close at 1am (could it be the rumours of a murderer in this town are true??!) but we managed to get oursleves a lock-iin at the Buddha Bar with friendly bunch of people all cheering on the italians!
Decided to stay here another night before i head up to Nong Khai for induction into teaching tomorrow! Bangkok too much for this weary person right now!
keep in touch everyone! lots of love
posted by charlie at 5:03 pm
3 Comments:
cheering on those greasy I-ties?? really. should have supported germany as the host nation....forgive and forget andall that. Poor old Bosh.
Hi Charlotte
Just got your blog address from Gabi so had to log on to read about your travels so far.
We went to Kanachiburi and I echo everything you say in your piece about it. Really shocking, isn't it?
Sounds like you're having loads of fun - really quite jealous.
On another note - Pam's Mel had a baby girl yesterday at 4pm. 8lb 13oz (cringe) and has called her Fleur. Pam still off work recovering from her op - the place isn't the same without her.
Have a glorious time and think of us slaving away here from time to time. Lots of love Helen (Gadd) xxx
Hi Charlotte, great blog. nice to see you before you went. sorry so brief - Amory was having a bit of a moan (then he just stopped and stared at you!). keep us updated,
ben
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